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  1. menu "Kernel hacking"
  2. source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
  3. config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
  4. bool "Check for stack overflows"
  5. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  6. help
  7. This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
  8. drops below a certain limit.
  9. config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
  10. bool "Enable stack utilization instrumentation"
  11. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  12. help
  13. Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
  14. task has ever had available in the sysrq-T output.
  15. This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
  16. config HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
  17. def_bool y
  18. config DEBUG_VERBOSE
  19. bool "Verbose fault messages"
  20. default y
  21. select PRINTK
  22. help
  23. When a program crashes due to an exception, or the kernel detects
  24. an internal error, the kernel can print a not so brief message
  25. explaining what the problem was. This debugging information is
  26. useful to developers and kernel hackers when tracking down problems,
  27. but mostly meaningless to other people. This is always helpful for
  28. debugging but serves no purpose on a production system.
  29. Most people should say N here.
  30. config DEBUG_MMRS
  31. bool "Generate Blackfin MMR tree"
  32. select DEBUG_FS
  33. help
  34. Create a tree of Blackfin MMRs via the debugfs tree. If
  35. you enable this, you will find all MMRs laid out in the
  36. /sys/kernel/debug/blackfin/ directory where you can read/write
  37. MMRs directly from userspace. This is obviously just a debug
  38. feature.
  39. config DEBUG_HWERR
  40. bool "Hardware error interrupt debugging"
  41. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  42. help
  43. When enabled, the hardware error interrupt is never disabled, and
  44. will happen immediately when an error condition occurs. This comes
  45. at a slight cost in code size, but is necessary if you are getting
  46. hardware error interrupts and need to know where they are coming
  47. from.
  48. config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
  49. bool "Debug Double Faults"
  50. default n
  51. help
  52. If an exception is caused while executing code within the exception
  53. handler, the NMI handler, the reset vector, or in emulator mode,
  54. a double fault occurs. On the Blackfin, this is a unrecoverable
  55. event. You have two options:
  56. - RESET exactly when double fault occurs. The excepting
  57. instruction address is stored in RETX, where the next kernel
  58. boot will print it out.
  59. - Print debug message. This is much more error prone, although
  60. easier to handle. It is error prone since:
  61. - The excepting instruction is not committed.
  62. - All writebacks from the instruction are prevented.
  63. - The generated exception is not taken.
  64. - The EXCAUSE field is updated with an unrecoverable event
  65. The only way to check this is to see if EXCAUSE contains the
  66. unrecoverable event value at every exception return. By selecting
  67. this option, you are skipping over the faulting instruction, and
  68. hoping things stay together enough to print out a debug message.
  69. This does add a little kernel code, but is the only method to debug
  70. double faults - if unsure say "Y"
  71. choice
  72. prompt "Double Fault Failure Method"
  73. default DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
  74. depends on DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
  75. config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
  76. bool "Print"
  77. config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_RESET
  78. bool "Reset"
  79. endchoice
  80. config DEBUG_ICACHE_CHECK
  81. bool "Check Instruction cache coherency"
  82. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  83. depends on DEBUG_HWERR
  84. help
  85. Say Y here if you are getting weird unexplained errors. This will
  86. ensure that icache is what SDRAM says it should be by doing a
  87. byte wise comparison between SDRAM and instruction cache. This
  88. also relocates the irq_panic() function to L1 memory, (which is
  89. un-cached).
  90. config DEBUG_HUNT_FOR_ZERO
  91. bool "Catch NULL pointer reads/writes"
  92. default y
  93. help
  94. Say Y here to catch reads/writes to anywhere in the memory range
  95. from 0x0000 - 0x0FFF (the first 4k) of memory. This is useful in
  96. catching common programming errors such as NULL pointer dereferences.
  97. Misbehaving applications will be killed (generate a SEGV) while the
  98. kernel will trigger a panic.
  99. Enabling this option will take up an extra entry in CPLB table.
  100. Otherwise, there is no extra overhead.
  101. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
  102. bool "Turn on Blackfin's Hardware Trace"
  103. default y
  104. help
  105. All Blackfins include a Trace Unit which stores a history of the last
  106. 16 changes in program flow taken by the program sequencer. The history
  107. allows the user to recreate the program sequencer’s recent path. This
  108. can be handy when an application dies - we print out the execution
  109. path of how it got to the offending instruction.
  110. By turning this off, you may save a tiny amount of power.
  111. choice
  112. prompt "Omit loop Tracing"
  113. default DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
  114. depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
  115. help
  116. The trace buffer can be configured to omit recording of changes in
  117. program flow that match either the last entry or one of the last
  118. two entries. Omitting one of these entries from the record prevents
  119. the trace buffer from overflowing because of any sort of loop (for, do
  120. while, etc) in the program.
  121. Because zero-overhead Hardware loops are not recorded in the trace buffer,
  122. this feature can be used to prevent trace overflow from loops that
  123. are nested four deep.
  124. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
  125. bool "Trace all Loops"
  126. help
  127. The trace buffer records all changes of flow
  128. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
  129. bool "Compress single-level loops"
  130. help
  131. The trace buffer does not record single loops - helpful if trace
  132. is spinning on a while or do loop.
  133. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
  134. bool "Compress two-level loops"
  135. help
  136. The trace buffer does not record loops two levels deep. Helpful if
  137. the trace is spinning in a nested loop
  138. endchoice
  139. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION
  140. int
  141. depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
  142. default 0 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
  143. default 1 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
  144. default 2 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
  145. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
  146. bool "Expand Trace Buffer greater than 16 entries"
  147. depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
  148. default n
  149. help
  150. By selecting this option, every time the 16 hardware entries in
  151. the Blackfin's HW Trace buffer are full, the kernel will move them
  152. into a software buffer, for dumping when there is an issue. This
  153. has a great impact on performance, (an interrupt every 16 change of
  154. flows) and should normally be turned off, except in those nasty
  155. debugging sessions
  156. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND_LEN
  157. int "Size of Trace buffer (in power of 2k)"
  158. range 0 4
  159. depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
  160. default 1
  161. help
  162. This sets the size of the software buffer that the trace information
  163. is kept in.
  164. 0 for (2^0) 1k, or 256 entries,
  165. 1 for (2^1) 2k, or 512 entries,
  166. 2 for (2^2) 4k, or 1024 entries,
  167. 3 for (2^3) 8k, or 2048 entries,
  168. 4 for (2^4) 16k, or 4096 entries
  169. config DEBUG_BFIN_NO_KERN_HWTRACE
  170. bool "Turn off hwtrace in CPLB handlers"
  171. depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
  172. default y
  173. help
  174. The CPLB error handler contains a lot of flow changes which can
  175. quickly fill up the hardware trace buffer. When debugging crashes,
  176. the hardware trace may indicate that the problem lies in kernel
  177. space when in reality an application is buggy.
  178. Say Y here to disable hardware tracing in some known "jumpy" pieces
  179. of code so that the trace buffer will extend further back.
  180. config EARLY_PRINTK
  181. bool "Early printk"
  182. default n
  183. select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
  184. help
  185. This option enables special console drivers which allow the kernel
  186. to print messages very early in the bootup process.
  187. This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
  188. early before the console code is initialized. After enabling this
  189. feature, you must add "earlyprintk=serial,uart0,57600" to the
  190. command line (bootargs). It is safe to say Y here in all cases, as
  191. all of this lives in the init section and is thrown away after the
  192. kernel boots completely.
  193. config CPLB_INFO
  194. bool "Display the CPLB information"
  195. help
  196. Display the CPLB information via /proc/cplbinfo.
  197. config ACCESS_CHECK
  198. bool "Check the user pointer address"
  199. default y
  200. help
  201. Usually the pointer transfer from user space is checked to see if its
  202. address is in the kernel space.
  203. Say N here to disable that check to improve the performance.
  204. endmenu